12 September at Muizenberg Village Festival!

Please join at the Ecojunki participation space on the festival day! Bring waste materials and join us in being creative ;-) The details:

Muizenberg Village Street Festival!
Sunday 12 September 2010
10am - 5pm

Muizenberg Village, Palmer & Church Street, Muizenberg


If you have the time and energy to help out with the festival decor, this also promises to be lots of fun and you'll meet interesting, inspiring people! Here's the opportunities that Claire Homewood emailed to people a few days ago:

Fri 3rd Sept and Fri 10th Sept:
Elizabeth is the lovely lady running Friday afternoon programs at The Melting Pot with kids from Lavender Hill and Capricorn Park who are part of the Africa Sinomusa Foundation. The kids come to Muizenberg for an afternoon of arts, crafts and musical play.They are also given lunch sponsored by Woolworths.

For the next two Fridays we are going to combine their activities with decor making. So if you are keen to get involved in paper mache', paint, sewing of flags and loads of creative fun please come join us!!

Sat 11th (the day before the festival)
We will continue with decor making and signage making from 10am outside Roots Bar

Please bring along:
Newspapers
Useful recycling materials
brushes
fabrics
bits and crafty pieces

All help will be greatly appreciated!
more info contact Claire 074 3485744 or Elizabeth 072 6544788

Lots of things happening in the next two months!

There is several things happening in September and October around Cape Town, and we need as many people as possible to participate and work together! Here is two of the opportunities, and there are many others by local organizations and friends, that's listed on our latest newsletter:



On 10 October 2010 people from across the planet will be celebrating and participating in events centred around creating awareness and initiating change relating to global warming. For more information go to www.350.org and sign up for an event or happening. If you're an artist and based in Cape Town, join in by conceptualizing, creating and implementing/performing a public piece on 10 October 2010 that relates to global warming. We also need a couple of photographers interested in taking great images of the event! Email ecojunki@gmail.com

More information at www.350.org/node/17116.



Wear green to show your support and enthusiasm towards saving our planet and fighting polution and global warming! Tell all your friends, family and the guy behind you in the queue! The more of us who wears green on the 10th of October, the more awareness we'll be spreading.

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charcoal on recycling

Debbie of life untitled has been using charcoal on her recycling. She says it's cheaper than using drawing paper. It's a great idea and asks the question: what other recyclables and rubbish can be used as canvasses for art?











This blog post is cross-posted at EcoStreet.

The honest truth: We don’t like passion. It scares us. Plain and simple.

Passion is a threat to our carefully contrived societies that rely on the mindless droning on of things we loathe. We insist on insisting that life is meant to be hard. That we were meant to work, not play; dread, not enjoy.

And as adults we keep ourselves stuck there, feeling guilty when we have wild, hilarious fun doing what we love.

Head Gardner: urban art

UK urban land artist and guerilla gardener Anna Garforth turned 2-litre milk bottles into cute characters with green hair-does and put them out in the streets for everyone to enjoy. She calls this project "Head Gardner".

[via Recyclart]

This blog post is cross-posted at ecostreet.com.